I used to suffer from an annoying problem where every so often a doc that I'd
been editing would become read-only. I'd have to save it with a new name,
delete the old copy, and rename the newly saved one. It would hum along OK
for a while (sometimes a few days and sometimes just a few saves) and then
become read-only again.

I never found a definitive answer, but most of the threads I found in
various forums suggested turning off background saves. Since turning off
background saving a few months ago, I don't think this has happened more than
once or twice.

Today it's back with a vengance. It's happened on various docs and just
about every time I save my edits. The only change to my system is last
night's auto-update with security fixes (KB969604).

Has anyone else seen this? Think it's a bug in the security patch?

The other Office patches that were installed are 969679, 969613, and 969559.
(There were many more, but they were specific to other Office products.)

I forgot to mention that this is with Word 2007.

Has anyone else had any trouble with Word 2007 docs becoming read-only? All
of the read-only threads I see on this forum are from users trying to edit a
doc from a CD.

KB969604 has a serious issue in that it can corrupt Word Documents. Reports
of issues with this update are coming from all over the place. I suggest you
report this to Microsoft Support (if you have a spare few hours) and
uninstall this update ASAP.
"Dave E" wrote:

> I used to suffer from an annoying problem where every so often a doc that I'd
> been editing would become read-only. I'd have to save it with a new name,
> delete the old copy, and rename the newly saved one. It would hum along OK
> for a while (sometimes a few days and sometimes just a few saves) and then
> become read-only again.
>
> I never found a definitive answer, but most of the threads I found in
> various forums suggested turning off background saves. Since turning off
> background saving a few months ago, I don't think this has happened more than
> once or twice.
>
> Today it's back with a vengance. It's happened on various docs and just
> about every time I save my edits. The only change to my system is last
> night's auto-update with security fixes (KB969604).
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Think it's a bug in the security patch?
>
> The other Office patches that were installed are 969679, 969613, and 969559.
> (There were many more, but they were specific to other Office products.)

Hi Chris,

Can you cite some sources for this issue? Not that I don't trust you, but
we just met and I'm kind of leery about uninstalling security patches without
solid justification.

Thanks,
Dave

"Chris" wrote:

> KB969604 has a serious issue in that it can corrupt Word Documents. Reports
> of issues with this update are coming from all over the place. I suggest you
> report this to Microsoft Support (if you have a spare few hours) and
> uninstall this update ASAP.
> "Dave E" wrote:
>
> > I used to suffer from an annoying problem where every so often a doc that I'd
> > been editing would become read-only. I'd have to save it with a new name,
> > delete the old copy, and rename the newly saved one. It would hum along OK
> > for a while (sometimes a few days and sometimes just a few saves) and then
> > become read-only again.
> >
> > I never found a definitive answer, but most of the threads I found in
> > various forums suggested turning off background saves. Since turning off
> > background saving a few months ago, I don't think this has happened more than
> > once or twice.
> >
> > Today it's back with a vengance. It's happened on various docs and just
> > about every time I save my edits. The only change to my system is last
> > night's auto-update with security fixes (KB969604).
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this? Think it's a bug in the security patch?
> >
> > The other Office patches that were installed are 969679, 969613, and 969559.
> > (There were many more, but they were specific to other Office products.)

I also have the same problem, but i am not sure of KB969604 patch.
I am just installing SP2 to check if it resolves the issue

"Dave E" wrote:

> I used to suffer from an annoying problem where every so often a doc that I'd
> been editing would become read-only. I'd have to save it with a new name,
> delete the old copy, and rename the newly saved one. It would hum along OK
> for a while (sometimes a few days and sometimes just a few saves) and then
> become read-only again.
>
> I never found a definitive answer, but most of the threads I found in
> various forums suggested turning off background saves. Since turning off
> background saving a few months ago, I don't think this has happened more than
> once or twice.
>
> Today it's back with a vengance. It's happened on various docs and just
> about every time I save my edits. The only change to my system is last
> night's auto-update with security fixes (KB969604).
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Think it's a bug in the security patch?
>
> The other Office patches that were installed are 969679, 969613, and 969559.
> (There were many more, but they were specific to other Office products.)

Did anyone find a fix for this? I'm still getting it with Office 2007 on XP
SP3. Happens seemingly randomly but I'm assuming that at the point I do the
Save, some other process (Background Save? Virus checker?) has hold of the
file and make it appear Read Only.

I've never actually noticed the title having the Read Only appended to it
other than when I hit the Save button, so I don't know if it occurs when
before that or not.

Pretty annoying.

Rob